Preparing for the USMLE Step 1? Try These Effective Strategies to Get a Perfect Score
A Caribbean medical school is notorious for its highly competitive environment. As soon as you start your medical school journey, you find yourself floundering helplessly in a sea of assignments, coursework, clinical research, and shadowing experience, essential for setting yourself up for success. Finding the time to prepare for standardized tests while cramming down copious […]
Checklist for Creating a Stellar Medical School Application – Are You Ready for the Fall Semester?
Soon fall will welcome you with a heap of leaves across your front yard. It will remind you that a very important phase of your life is about to begin. You will be busy preparing for your lifelong journey in medicine. And the first step in that journey is your medical school application. Since your […]
Interested in Primary Care? Consider These Rewarding Specialties
Medical students often construe general medicine as a tedious, unchallenging and a quaint field. Many medical students steer clear of this specialty in favor of more intriguing facets of medicine. In fact in the United States alone, primary care is one of the most demanding career options. Primary care providers make up the top 6% […]
7 Factors to Consider Before Finding the Right Post Baccalaureate Program
Not everyone who dreams about donning scrubs and putting a smile on the patients’ faces follows the traditional path to a medical college. For students who opt for medicine later in their schools or even after graduation as a career change, it is impossible to secure a seat in a medical school without enrolling in […]
Here’s Why You Should Choose a Medical Specialty in Hematology
You apply for admission at a Caribbean medical school and are lucky enough to be called in for an interview. During the interview, you brace yourself for the familiar strains of an age-old question. “What medical specialty are you thinking of pursuing?” And this question goes well into the year of earning the MD. Believe it or […]
Choosing a Career in Psychiatry – Here’s What This Diverse Discipline has in Store for You
Career in psychiatry holds great attraction for students the world over and is an ever challenging and exciting façade of medicine. It lets you apply your acquired medical knowledge to diagnose, treat and prevent a host of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. Being a psychiatrist, you are responsible for assessing both the mental and physical […]